On 1/23/07, Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jan 23, 2007, at 17:45, liorean wrote:
> Well, considering the purpose of XHTML (main purpose is presentation
> for humans, no?) is there any reason to NOT just set it to default to
> "preserve" on the html element, fixed to "preserve" on the script,
> style, pre and textarea elements and have it implied through an entity
> for all other elements?

Since this is about generic XML tools, XHTML-specific rules don't help.

How doesn't it? If the DTD allows it on all elements, you can put
xml:space="preserve" on all elements in the document that need it for
the tools that don't use the external subset or namespace recognition
--
David "liorean" Andersson

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